Binyi Yang is co-author, for Carnegie China (the Singapore-based center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), with Damien Ma of "Who's Ahead in the Global AI Talent Race?" (September 23, 2026) (Who's Ahead in the Global AI Talent Race? (Ma and Yang, Carnegie China, 2026)). The study gives no title or role for Yang, and the published feature carries no author biography for Yang (Source: carnegieendowment.org).
The Carnegie China talent study
The study is presented as AI Talent v3.0, a continuation of the Global AI Talent Tracker that MacroPolo ran until it ceased operations in 2025. It traces the undergraduate origin, graduate training and workplace one year after the conference of authors of papers accepted at NeurIPS, comparing the 2022 and 2025 cohorts. Using the 10,280 of 25,677 unique NeurIPS 2025 authors (40%) with complete career histories on OpenReview, it counts 40.6% of the 2025 cohort as working in China and 34.2% in the United States, against 27.1% and 46.4% for the 2022 cohort; the United States records the largest net gain of researchers (+2,145) and China the largest net loss (−1,729), and Peking University and Tsinghua University rank first and second among institutions (Who's Ahead in the Global AI Talent Race? (Ma and Yang, Carnegie China, 2026)). The findings are discussed at AI Talent Flows and US-China AI Competition: Different Races, Different Metrics.
Its methodology section refers throughout to a single "human researcher" who set the cohorts and definitions, handled missing data and institution matches, and reviewed outputs produced with Claude Code and OpenAI Codex; it does not name which author performed that role (Who's Ahead in the Global AI Talent Race? (Ma and Yang, Carnegie China, 2026)).
Possible further background
Public profiles describe a Binyi Yang as a PhD candidate at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, whose dissertation compares China's solar and wind industries and who has published in Politics and Governance, the Asian Journal of Political Science and Asia Policy (Source: rsis.edu.sg). A Binyi Yang of RSIS co-wrote with Mingjiang Li the January 2024 Asia Policy roundtable essay "Subnational Powerhouses or Setbacks? The Roles of Chinese Local Governments in U.S.-China Technological Competition," which examines subsidies, tax incentives and government guidance funds used by Chinese local governments to support technology firms (Source: nbr.org). Neither the Carnegie study nor these profiles state that they refer to the same person, so the identification is unconfirmed.